A woman discreetly exits the restaurant after her fiancé insists she covers the bill

On Reddit, a woman shared her experience. She mentioned that her fiancé mocked her for earning more money than him and expected her to cover the bill for him and his friends at the restaurant.

She explained that her fiancé brought up the topic when she mentioned receiving a 30% raise. “My fiancé (M37) and I have been engaged for five months. We avoid discussing finances at his insistence. I recently got a pay raise, and I’ve noticed him using the fact that I make 30% more than him to ask me to cover expenses for him and his friends. Whenever I refuse or question why I should pay, he retorts with ‘the 30% difference’ as if I don’t deserve the raise or it’s unfair.”

She asserted that she refused to foot the bill this time because he had tricked her multiple times into paying for meals. “He has repeatedly asked me, often in public, to cover his and his friends’ meals, tricking me into doing so. I’m too polite to say no, so I just smile and pay to avoid conflict, especially in public places like restaurants. Last Tuesday, he invited me to dinner with his friends. I immediately told him I wouldn’t be paying for their meals and not to expect it. ‘Got this,’ he replied, saying ‘no worries.'”

During dinner, her fiancé whispered that she would pay again, but she declined. “We arrived at the restaurant, ordered, and met his friends. He leaned in and whispered during the meal that I would be covering whatever he and his friends ordered. I was furious and muttered ‘noooo,’ but I think he relied on me to stay quiet in front of his friends and the public. ‘You have enough money, remember,’ he remarked.”

She became angry and, after paying her own bill, left. “I was seething inside. Instead of causing a scene, I waited for the bills, paid mine, excused myself to the restroom, then slipped away and drove home.”

Her fiancé then texted and called to ask where she was, and she responded. “An hour later, he arrived and began yelling at me, calling me selfish, irrational, cheap, and childish for leaving him with a bill he couldn’t pay (he had to call his brother for help),” she recounted during their argument. After a heated argument, he left. His friends avoided discussing it, but he said they were disappointed in her actions and advised him to reconsider the type of woman he wants to marry.